Garment



J. WEISS.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16,1919.

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ablowu ULN-iTED STA TES JULIA XVEISS, OF KEN OSHA, WISCONSIN.

GARMENT.

Application filed July 16,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIA VVEISS, a citizen of the United States,residing at 681. Fleet street, Kenosha, county of Kenosha, and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements inGarmcnts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in garments and has for itsprincipal object to provide a garment adapted for use as a skirt andwhich may be readily converted into a pair of trousers.

Another object of the invention is to provide agarment of simpleconstruction in which the fastening means for securing certain of theparts together to form a skirt are also utilized in holding the partstogether in the form of trousers.

iVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel construction,

combination and arrangement of parts which will be more fullyhereinafter de scribed in the following specification, claimed, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a frontView of the garment illustrating it assembled for use as a skirt. Fig. 2is a rear view of the same,

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the garment assembled foruse as a pair of trousers, and,

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view showing the connection of the variousparts.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the

numeral 5 designates the waist band of the garment the ends of which aresecured about the waist of the wearer by buttons or other suitablefastening means6. Secured to the waist band are the skirt sections 7 and8 which are designed to flare outward toward their lower ends to providethe desired fullness usually formed in a skirt, and secured to thesections 7 and 8 are pockets 9 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The meeting edges 10 of the parts 7 and 8 at the rear of the garment arestitched or therwise permanently secured together rom a point aboutmidway of the length of the garment to the top or waist band 5, whilethose portions of the edges 10 be tween the lower end of the garment andthe permanently secured portions are provided at spaced intervals withbuttons and. button holes or other securing means 11 by Specification ofLetters Patent.

, wide hem Patented Aug. 10, 1920. 1919. Serial No. 311,117.

which the nected.

The meeting edges 12 of the parts 7 and 8 the front of the garment areprovided at spaced intervals with the buttons or other fastening means13 and are designed to open throughout the entire length of the garment.

Formed at the lower edge of each section 7 and 8 of the garment, is arelatively ,Li forming a tubular passage the inner wall of which isprovided with a slot adjacent the rear edge of its respective sectionthrough which the free end of draw string or tape 16 passes. Theopposite end of the draw string or tape 16 is secured in the passage orhem 1% at the end opposite the slot 15.

Formed near the free end of the tape 16 is a buttonhole l7 and securedintermediate the ends of ti e tape is a button 18, the use of which willbe further on described.

lVhe'n the garment is to be used as a skirt the same is assembled in themanner shown in Figs. 1 and 8 by connecting the edges 10 and 10 and theedges 12 and 1:2. T he same is then worn in the usual manner.

when it is desired to convert the garment for use as trousers, the lowerportions of the edges 10 are connected with the lower portions of theedges 12 in the manner shown in Fig. 3 thus providing leg encirclingportions.

After preparing the garment in this manner the draw-string or tape isdrawn tightly about the leg, so that the fullness of the parts 7 and 8is gathered in, and the buttons 18 are passed through the button holes17 thereby securing the tape in place.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and. described the preferredform of this invention it. is to be understood that certain minorchanges in the construction combination and arrangement of parts ma beresorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventionas claimed.

hat is claimed is A combination garment which consists of a dividedskirt secured to a suitable waist band, the upper portion of the meetingedges of the skirt sections at the rear of the garment being permanentlysecured together, button holes and buttons on the lower portions of themeeting edges at the rear of the garment and on the meeting edges ofparts may be removably conthe skirt sections at the front of thegarmediate the ends of said tape adapted to be ment to hold the sectionsin one position in engaged in said button holes when it is 1 the form ofa skirt and in another position desired to use the garment as trousers,subto fornra pair of trousers, a relatively wide stantially asdescribed.slotted hem at the lower edge of each sec- In testimony whereof I haveafiixed my tion, a strap or tape provided with a butsignature.

ton hole secured to said hem and passed 7 through the slot thereof, andbuttons inter- JULIA WVEISS.

